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Watch Neil DeGrasse Tyson Take on the Hot Ones Challenge

ByJackson Connor

May 11, 2017

Neil DeGrasse Tyson—the StarTalk host, Hayden Planetarium director, and astrophysicist extraordinaire—is often lauded as one of the brightest minds in the country, translating complex scientific theories into plain English for the common man.

So why did someone as smart as NDT agree to eat increasingly spicy chicken wings on the Internet with Sean Evans? Well, some questions in the universe are beyond our finite human intelligence.